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FAIRMAN L. ANDRFAVS, OF MILES GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,941, dated January8, 1889.

Application filed July 16, 1888.

T0 'aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FAIRMAN L. ANDREWS, a citizen of the I'nited States,residing ati Miles Grove, in the county of Erie and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new i and useful Improvements inForks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencea' marked thereon, forming part of this specification.

My invention cousisls in the improvement 3 in forks hereinafter setforth and explained, and illustrateiil in the aeeonuiianying drawings,in which- Figure l is a perspective view of one of my 5 improved forks.Fig. 2 is aperspective View of a 11 ortion of same in process ofinanufacl lure. The olriects of my invention are, first, to 1 constructa fork adapted tobe used for handling coke and other broken materialswith a guard across and above the head of the fork from one side thereofto the other, in such shape as to retain the materials being handled ifrom falling back over the head of the fork; second, to construct theguard from the same material and as an integral part of the fork.

In the drawings, A is the handle of the fork, 1 B the head, and (I thetines of the fork. l

In the. construction of this fork I preferably make the head B, tines C,shank D, and guard E of a single piece of steel, without any weldtherein, except one'in the guard E, the 1 ends a and b of which arebrought together, 1

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as illustrated in Fig. 2, and afterward Welded into the form shown inFig. 1 and by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, the same being substantiallylateral projections of the head B bent around and brought together in aline substantially parallel thereto, the guard E being about the samedistance above the head B that the tines C are apart. Itwill also beobserved that each end of the head B is curved upward, bringing the twooutside tines above the others, so as to prevent the material beinghandled from falling over the sides of the fork, which feature, inconnection with the guard E, makes the fork substantially a scoop, sothat articles like potatoes in bulk, coke, hard coal, and such materialsmay be handled therewith much more conveniently than with scoops or withcoke-forks as now constructed.

Therefore what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is

1. A coke-fork having a guard integral therewith secured above thefork-head and 1 parallel thereto extending from one end of the fork-headto the other,substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. A guard extending from one end of a fork-head to the other and madeintegral and parallel therewith, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

In testimony whereof I at'fiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FAIRMAN Ii. ANDREIVS.

Witnesses:

A. DENIO, FRANK REED.

